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Submitted: May 14, 2007 - 8:24am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 7:15am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 7:15am
ECHOSTAR EYES BROADCAST ASSETS
[SOURCE: Hollywood Reporter, AUTHOR: Georg Szalai]
Satellite TV provider EchoStar Communications finds broadcast assets attractive as potential acquisition targets and could well start doing day-and-date film release trials with movie studios -- as cable operators have done -- as part of its expansion of VOD offerings. The company also expects to keep increasing the number of movie titles it offers on-demand via its hard drives, whose capacity it keeps expanding.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/business/news/e3i972607249304ed566fd961cb5563f9f7
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